Environmental Governance in South Asia

Two-week course conducted by the Centre for Science and Environment under the Indian Ministry of External Affairs’ ITEC programme

Objective: To be informed and updated about regulatory best practices in South Asia.

Who can apply:
Open to participants from: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Maldives, Myanmar, Nepal and Sri Lanka.

In-service professionals in the fields of pollution abatement and control, municipal and city-level functionaries, representatives from regulatory institutions, including pollution control boards and environment protection authorities as well as policy-makers. Civil society functionaries, students pursuing environment-related courses and industry representatives are also eligible.

Fee
The Ministry of External Affairs will bear the cost of participants selected for the course.

Programme Design:

Module 1 -- Environmental Governance: Laws, Rules and Guidelines
The objective of this module is to make the participants aware about environmental laws and regulations across South Asia with focus on best-practices

--Understanding how environment regulations are working in different South Asian countries with focus on issues related to their implementation.
-- Update on the challenges of clean air and urban mobility in South Asia. The risks and challenges of growth and the strategies for combating air pollution and mobility issues.

-- National and international regimes and best practices to manage waste.

-- Participants will understand the wider concept of river and surface water bodies as ecosystems and not merely water collection systems. Understand existing laws on protecting surface water bodies and value of maintaining water quality and quantity for different uses.

-- Knowledge of existing monitoring techniques and procedures. Visit to India’s Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) and CSE laboratories and air quality monitoring station to get hands-on experience of various pollution monitoring techniques, instrumentation, data generation and its analysis.

--Exposure to administrative tools to perform monitoring and inspection for ensuring compliance. Developing tools and techniques for verification of self-monitored data.

--The two-day field tour to various industries will allow participants to get hands-on experience on inspection and monitoring in different sectors and sampling procedures

Faculty: Leaders in the field of pollution control, officials from regulatory agencies, experts on environmental law, policy-makers as well as the Centre for Science and Environment’s staffers.

How to Apply: Please email your applications with detailed CV to nivit@cseindia.org (Nivit Yadav, Deputy Programme Manager) by February 25, 2014. Participants short-listed for the course will be informed by email.